[Patch]: mkdir -p and network drives

[Christopher Faylor]

On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 10:55:29AM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com>
>To: <cygwin-patches@cygwin.com>
>Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 10:22 AM
>Subject: Re: [Patch]: mkdir -p and network drives
>
>>Well, that was kinda my point.  If we can't remove the "//" handling
>>because it breaks bash then adding opendir/readdir stuff seems
>>premature except for the case of ls //foo which is entirely different
>>from ls //.
>
>Sigh.  We need a bash maintainer.  We need to have // working for mkdir
>-p to work, from what I understand of the code snippet that was sent to
>the list.

I thought that Eric Blake implied that // *had* to be translated to /,
as per POSIX.  I wonder how many programs out there translate a
standalone '//' to '/'.

cgf